Harvard's
freshman lightweights are coached by Linda Muri, a 1986 graduate of
MIT with a degree in aeronautical and astronautical engineering.
Muri is in her 14th season with the Crimson in
2014-15.Most
recently, Muri guided Harvard's lightweight four to a silver medal
at the 2014 IRA National Championship and a win in 2013 to help the
Crimson sweep both lightweight events at the
regatta.

Muri
led Harvard to a 10-0 lightweight freshman dual record and an EARC
silver medal in 2010. The 2008 freshman eight won its first
seven dual races and also took a silver medal at
Sprints.

In
2004, Muri led the freshman to the EARC Sprints title, the first
victory for Harvard in this event since 1985. This was followed up
with a victory in the freshman 4+ at the 2004 IRA National
Championship, the first for Harvard in that event. Prior to
coaching at Harvard, Muri served as the freshman lightweight coach
at Cornell from 1998-2001. There she led the Big Red freshman to a
silver medal at the EARC Sprints in her first season. Muri began
her collegiate coaching career in 1990 at Simmons College. Before
that, she coached at the Middlesex School and worked as a boat
builder and designer in Concord, Mass.

As
a competitor, Muri was a nine-time U.S. national team member and is
a three-time world champion. In 1994, she was a Sullivan Award
semifinalist. Muri is also an 18-time U.S. national champion, has
five Head of the Charles championships to her name and is the owner
of two CRASH-B Sprints hammers.

Muri's
coaching efforts have expanded beyond Newell Boathouse. She coached
former Harvard lightweight crew standout Andrew Campbell '14 who
won the single sculls event at the 2013 and 2014 World Rowing U23
Championships, as well as earning bronze in 2012. She also helped
guide three United States boats to gold medals at the 2010 World
Rowing U23 Championships. In 2009, Muri coached Paddy Thornycroft
(Zimbabwe) in the U23 world championships.

She
spent two summers (2004-05) serving as an assistant coach on the
U.S. Women's Junior Team. She helped the women's 4- and 2- earn
places in the grand final at the junior world championships each
year and coached both crews to gold medals at the U.S. national
championships in 2005. Most recently she guided the U-23 men's
lightweight 4- to a seventh place finish at the 2006 U-23 world
championships, its best finish ever in a U-23 competition. She
coached the same boat at the 2007 U-23 world championships in North
Lanarkshire, Scotland. She is also a learn-to-row instructor with a
variety of camps and clubs throughout the Northeast.

Radcliffe
and MIT named their series cup in honor of Muri in 2009. Radcliffe
won the inaugural row with Muri on hand to congratulate the wining
crew.

Originally
from Woburn, Mass., Muri earned a master's degree in education from
Harvard in 1997.